Storage
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Best SSDs For The Money: April 2012
April 26, 2012 – 12:00 AM
SSDs prices continue to fall, and we're updating our list of recommendations to reflect those changes. This month, the best deals are found in ... Read more
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Hitachi's 4 TB Hard Drives Take On The 3 TB Competition
April 25, 2012 – 12:00 AM
Hitachi recently started shipping a pair of 4 TB hard drives. We can see that they're pretty expensive, but how do they compare to existing 3 TB ... Read more
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Workstation Storage: Modeling, CAD, Programming, And Virtualization
March 13, 2012 – 12:00 AM
We use a mixture of real-world and synthetic benchmarks to quantify storage performance in our reviews. But how do you know our methodology is ... Read more
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Ten 60 GB SandForce-Based Boot Drives, Rounded-Up
March 1, 2012 – 12:00 AM
What makes one SandForce-based SSD different from the others that appear to be just like it? We round up 10 models with 60 GB of capacity to ... Read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: February 2012
February 28, 2012 – 12:00 AM
After Valentine's Day, SSDs prices fell once again, and we updated our list to reflect those changes. This month, the best deals are found in the ... Read more
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Toshiba's $7000+ 400 GB SSD: SAS 6Gb/s, SLC Flash, And Big Endurance
February 24, 2012 – 12:00 AM
Have you ever wondered what separates an enterprise SSD from a consumer-oriented drive? How about SLC and MLC flash (and a corresponding price ... Read more
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Momentus XT 750 GB Review: A Second-Gen Hybrid Hard Drive
February 9, 2012 – 12:00 AM
When a little bit of flash memory is good, more must be better, right? Seagate's second-generation Momentus XT hybrid hard drive is out to ... Read more
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Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForce
February 6, 2012 – 11:00 AM
If you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on ... Read more
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Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?
February 1, 2012 – 12:00 AM
Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different ... Read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012
January 24, 2012 – 12:00 AM
Welcome to the year's first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price drops on second-gen SandForce-based hardware. There ... Read more
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Storage Performance In Entertainment And Content Creation
January 13, 2012 – 12:00 AM
A number of metrics are used to quantify storage performance. If you're a content creator, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can ... Read more
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60/64 GB SSD Shootout: Crucial, Samsung, And SandForce
January 5, 2012 – 12:00 AM
It's easy to forget that lower-capacity SSDs are also usually slower. Today we're testing the most prolific 60/64 GB configurations to gauge ... Read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: December 2011
December 29, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Welcome to the last column of 2011. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price drops on second-gen SandForce hardware. There are ... Read more
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OCZ Octane 512 GB SSD Review: Meet Indilinx's Everest Controller
December 28, 2011 – 12:00 AM
What? A performance SSD from OCZ not based on SandForce's tech? The new Octane SSD features an Indilinx controller. Does OCZ rectify the ... Read more
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SSD Performance In The Office: Nine Applications Benchmarked
December 15, 2011 – 12:00 AM
A number of metrics are used to quantify storage performance. If you're a regular Joe, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can ... Read more
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Exploring SSD Performance In Battlefield 3, F1 2011, And Rift
November 25, 2011 – 12:00 AM
We use a ton of terms to quantify storage performance. If you're a gamer, you have to be wonder how such dry terminology can apply to having fun. ... Read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: November 2011
November 23, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Welcome to the sixth iteration of our highest-ranked SSDs at any given price point. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price ... Read more
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Round-Up: 15 microSDHC Cards, Benchmarked And Reviewed
November 10, 2011 – 12:00 AM
With rated write performance as high as 10 MB/s and capacities as high as 32 GB, there's plenty of choice in the microSDHC marketplace. Do the ... Read more
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Six 2.5” High-Capacity Notebook Hard Drives
November 3, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Advanced Format technology makes it possible to build 9.5 mm high 2.5” hard disks with 500 GB per platter. The result is a range of slim and ... Read more
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Intel SSD 710 Tested: MLC NAND Flash Hits The Enterprise
October 31, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Take note, enterprise customers: the successor to Intel's vaunted X25-E is here, and it doesn't center on SLC flash. Instead, the company is ... Read more
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OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid: Solid-State Speed With Hard Drive Capacity
October 24, 2011 – 12:00 AM
If you're tempted to buy a PCI Express-based SSD and add your own conventional storage, OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid could might suit you. A 120 GB SSD ... Read more
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Does The USB 3.0 Controller On Your Motherboard Matter?
October 20, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Given a lack of chipset vendors integrating USB 3.0 support into their core logic (with the exception of AMD's Socket FM1-focused A75), ... Read more
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Best SSDs For The Money: October 2011
October 14, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Welcome to the fifth iteration of our highest-ranked SSDs for any given budget. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price drops ... Read more
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Should You Upgrade? From A Hard Drive To An SSD
October 7, 2011 – 12:00 AM
Should you buy a new processor for your next machine? How about a new graphics card? Have you given any thought to the status of your storage ... Read more
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Four SAS 6 Gb/s RAID Controllers, Benchmarked And Reviewed
October 6, 2011 – 12:00 AM
We got our hands on four SAS 6 Gb/s RAID controllers from Adaptec, Areca, HighPoint, and LSI and ran them through RAID 0, 5, 6, and 10 workloads ... Read more